The impact of patent protection on biomedical innovation has been a controversial issue. Although a "medical anti … difficult to predict the impact of patenting on biomedical innovation in developing and least developed countries. This paper … develops a framework of analysis for the impact of patent rights on biomedical innovation in "technology follower" developing …

inter-organizational interactions in the country's biotechnological system of innovation, using public research institutes … contacts between various agents in the system of innovation, including firms, universities, traditional medicine practitioners …

universities was expected to promote greater firm-level technical innovation resulting in greater output and product quality but …

innovation and knowledge management and their impact on performance at the firm level for a number of countries. These studies … have been conducted using data drawn from innovation surveys combined with data from a number of other sources. The issue … illustrates the value of these surveys in improving our understanding of innovation in firms and raises a number of questions for …

been known for many years about the way innovation takes place and finds that many of the shortcomings of RIU in Asia were … precisely because lessons from previous research on agricultural innovation were "not put into use" in the programme … research: (i) Promoting research into use requires enabling innovation. This goes beyond fostering collaboration, and includes …

agricultural research should be used for innovation. The paper suggests a number of novel entry points for projects promoting … contested visions of research and innovation within the programme and between the programme and its donors and other …

"innovation modes" (the innovator, the niche operator and the manufacturer), each mode being a step closer towards the innovative … policies pursued in the pharmaceutical sector over the past four decades and highlights the role of differential innovation …

policy played a crucial role and the endogenous responses in the national system of innovation consisted of two parts. On the …